Ranga Rangachari, vice president and
general manager, Storage with Red Hat said, “As enterprises deploy
containers, many see a need for storage solutions designed specifically
for these types of systems. Red Hat Container-Native Storage, optimized
for multi/hybrid cloud deployments with Red Hat OpenShift Container
Platform, offers that. The addition of support for a broad range of
storage workloads, the support for the Red Hat OpenShift Container
Platform’s core infrastructure pieces, and increased persistent volume
density are key features to help customers support present and future
datacenters, and all further strengthen the tight integration of Red Hat
Container-Native Storage with Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform.”

Henry Baltazar, Research vice president at 451 Research added, “As
enterprises move over to hybrid cloud infrastructures and support on
premise and public cloud deployments, they need to ensure support for
containerized applications and infrastructure with a secure, integrated
storage platform. Next-generation workloads like microservices and
containers are going to demand more agility and scalability from storage
systems, which will have a direct impact on TCO. Red Hat
Container-Native Storage enables customers to move to a single
integrated container platform across their hybrid cloud infrastructure,
creating a versatile storage platform for containers while simplifying
management.”

Red Hat Container-Native Storage, built upon Red Hat Gluster Storage, is
integrated with Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform and uniquely serves
storage out of containers. Red Hat Gluster Storage is enterprise-grade,
durable, more secure and well-suited for the hybrid cloud as it supports
both on-premise or public cloud deployments. These attributes make it
ideally suited to Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform deployments. Red
Hat Container-Native Storage can eliminate the need to have an
independent storage platform, enabling customers to achieve one
integrated container platform that can span the hybrid cloud with
greater efficiency and cost savings, a streamlined user experience,
single control plane and a single point of support.

Red Hat Container-Native Storage 3.6

The move to container-based applications can bring challenges to
existing traditional storage architectures, holding back the drive for
innovation and progress. Software-defined container-native storage
addresses the challenges with the ability to merge the storage services
with the container platform like any other container service and runs on
physical, virtual, public cloud and even on top of traditional storage
appliances. Existing traditional storage architectures do not always
offer this level of inherent scale and flexibility and, as a result, can
fall short of unlocking the full potential of container application
platforms like Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform.

With Red Hat Container-Native Storage 3.6, Red Hat demonstrates its
leadership as a provider of native storage for container platforms with
the following new features:

•Versatile storage platform for containers enabling customers to manage,
scale, and upgrade their storage needs using a single control plane
helping customers to achieve greater storage efficiency and cost
savings. Red Hat Container-Native Storage now offers support for file,
block, and object interfaces, enabling container applications
portability to the container platform without change.

•Support
for all core infrastructure elements of Red Hat OpenShift Container
Platform, including its registry, logging, and metrics. Support for
these core components enables storage administrators to have Red Hat
Container-Native Storage for infrastructure out-of-the-box, without
needing to use disparate storage systems for different infrastructure
aspects and have one integrated platform with simplified management,
procurement, and support.

•Three-fold increase in the number of applications and microservices
deployed on a single storage cluster. Increased persistent volume
density offers customers greater resource utilization.

Red Hat is also rolling out a new OpenShift Container Platform with
Container-Native Storage Test Drive, enabling customers to simulate Red
Hat OpenShift deployments via the public cloud. This Test Drive aims to
provide an inquiring administrator with a full multi-node Red Hat
OpenShift Container Platform cluster, running in the cloud. Customers
will be able to explore lab exercises designed to expose them to
different administrative and operational tasks with both Red Hat
OpenShift and Red Hat Container-Native Storage.

Red Hat Container-Native Storage 3.6 is expected to be generally
available later this month.